Table of contents for January-February 2016 in Capture

For working professionals, the most crucial asset in the business is not the expensive camera kit or the extensive studio flash lighting setup. It’s something a great deal less tangible. Sure it’s a little challenging to shoot if something happens to your tools of the trade, and you can’t use them, but that’s what insurance is for. You’ve got insurance, right?! The most important and valuable asset you have is actually your digital assets – your images and video. And the only sort of insurance that you can get to ensure that your business, and livelihood, is not affected should you experience a catastrophic hard drive failure is a great backup regime and reliable equipment. Many before you, and likely after you, will try all manner of approaches, thinking that…

Client: Personal project Project name: Tableaux Vivants Ryan Schude is a Californian advertising, fine art and editorial photographer who has spent time studying, working, and evolving his creative style in San Diego, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Moving to Los Angeles eight years ago, Schude found himself reinventing his photographic style and feeling like a novice all over again. Prior to that, he was based in San Diego, working as a photographer and photo editor for a small, action-sports magazine; quite a coveted position for a new graduate. It was however, after his move to LA where things really started to take off for him. “During my undergraduate degree, I just decided that it was time for me to get out of the academic world and see what it was…

Stephen Stewart Stephen Stewart has been shooting advertising his entire career, for more than 20 years. “I love being an ad shooter as it’s always throwing up new creative challenges,” says Stewart. “It allows my clients and me to think about new ways to develop and create contemporary images.” This campaign was a combined effort with Electric Art. “We have a great synergy, and when we join forces, amazing results are created,” says Stewart. “I am a purist when it comes to photojournalism, but when it comes to advertising, bring out the big bag of tricks, I say!” For the campaign, the creative development process was to break the images down into component elements. To create the ‘invisible’ athletes, the team needed to remove the athletes’ bodies from the final…

See What a Life! By Tony Mott, State Library of NSW, Sydney, until 7 February. This exhibition displays over 300 images by rock photographer Tony Mott, the British-born chef who went on to become the photographer of choice for some of the biggest names in the music industry. It tells the story of rock music in Australia over the last 30 years. Mott’s photographs have appeared in more than 700 music magazines and street press journals, and he has provided photography for more than 450 singles, EPs and albums. bit.ly/1OHpESS The camera is god by Trent Parke, Monash Gallery of Art (MGA), Monash, Victoria, until 21 February. This street portrait series is the first major exhibition of internationally renowned Australian photojournalist Trent Parke’s work to be shown in Victoria. It…

Win cash, prizes and industry exposure! $15,000 PRIZE POOL Capture is looking to uncover Australia’s best emerging talents. Don’t miss this opportunity to kick-start your career and gain industry recognition, have your work published, and share in the amazing prize pool. ENTERING IS EASY To enter, submit a series of six images in one of the following categories. ARCHITECTURE ART EDITORIAL/FASHION LANDSCAPE DOCUMENTARY/PHOTOJOURNALISM PORTRAIT SPORT STUDENT WEDDING INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING Don’t limit yourself. You can enter more than one category, and enter each category more than once. PRIZES Winners will share in over $15,000 in cash and prizes and have their work published in the May/June issue of Capture magazine (print and iPad edition), and on the Capture website. The overall winner, Australia’s Top Emerging Photographer 2016, will…

Roll the dice Failing to deliver images for any commissioned assignment, be it a wedding, an advertising campaign or a birth, is not only going to hurt your business financially, but can damage your reputation and cause significant stress. For working photographers, photos and videos are their most valuable assets. And most have experienced data loss at some point or another in their working life. Yet many are unsure of how, and even when, to backup effectively. For some, talk of digital asset management, data strategies, and backup regimes is geek heaven, while for others, it’s unfathomable hell. The only real and effective insurance policy against a catastrophe is an excellent backup regime. As a working professional, or in fact anyone that assigns any worth whatsoever to what they create,…

Contemporary artist and humanitarian, Stuart Robertson was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1969. In creating his art, he melds photography, film, digital media, symbolism, hand-blown glass and neon with his background in design and fabrication. His aim: create works that communicate to the viewer, both deeply and profoundly, giving them the opportunity to confront their preconceptions as well as recognise their similarities in the human condition. The quest for peace Robertson’s global art project, Peace in 10,000 Hands, is creating a visual provocation to challenge and reinvigorate the conversation for peace. Inspired by the belief that art is intimately entwined with the human condition, Robertson believes that it has the power to challenge and create change. “Since the time of cave drawings, art has inspired and transcended the boundaries…

Paris-based Robin Hammond’s eyes have seen things you could not imagine. With an interest in human rights and developing issues in our world, the photojournalist has had the opportunity to document and share the stories of those who are voiceless. With bodies of work exploring topics like attitudes to mental health in Africa, his efforts have awarded him with a World Press Photo prize and four Amnesty International awards for Human Rights journalism. Hammond’s success as a photographer, however, was no easy road. A different kind of arts Before photography, Hammond was heavily involved with Karate – deciding early on in his life to travel abroad to Japan to continue his training in it. However, as the years passed, Hammond began to realise that his body could not take the…

Cameras ¦ The latest offering from Leica is the SL mirrorless system camera. The German-made camera features a 24-megapixel full-frame sensor and a 2.95” back panel display with customisable buttons as well as touchscreen menu navigation. Equipped with 2GB buffer memory, together with Leica’s high-performance Maestro II series processor, the camera can shoot 11 frames per second at full resolution. 4K video is available with a frame rate of 30 frames per second. Leica currently offers three SL-specific lenses, but almost any other Leica lens can be used with the relevant adapter. The line-up includes the Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm f/2.8-4 ASPH, Leica APO-Vario-Elmarit-SL 90-280mm f/2.8–4, and Leica Summilux-SL 50mm f/1.4 ASPH. en.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-SL ¦ Sony’s latest premium compact is the full-frame RX1R II, and delivers the highest picture quality of any…